Ante-Nicene Fathers — Vol. 06 — CCEL UTF-8 text — Section 1911
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Work: Ante-Nicene Fathers — Volume 6
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Ante-Nicene Fathers Vol. 6
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33. Your gods, it is recorded, dine on celestial couches, and in golden chambers, drink, and are at last soothed by the music of the lyre, and singing. You fit them with ears not easily wearied; [4248] and do not think it unseemly to assign to the gods the pleasures by which earthly bodies are supported, and which are sought after by ears enervated by the frivolity of an unmanly spirit. Some of them are brought forward in the character of lovers, destroyers of purity, to commit shameful and degrading deeds not only with women, but with men also. You take no care as to what is said abou…
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